90:, but this was fatal to his popularity. Some of the church members reduced their subscriptions by 50 per cent., but I little knew how much the pastor had suffered in trying to improve the music until Mr. Symes told me himself afterwards. When the late Rev. W. Roby Fletcher took the pulpit there was an accumulated debt of ÂŖ200. caused by the reduced subscriptions. A committee was formed to decide how this should be wiped off. It was suggested that the organ should be closed, the organist dismissed, and the harmonium reinstated; and that I should be asked to play for ÂŖ30 per annum. I replied that if the church was in difficulties I would play for nothing; but that I would not disgrace my profession by playing for ÂŖ30 a year. As I had offered to play for nothing, they could not very well send me away, and I remained.
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of the congregation would immediately sit down. In fact, a meeting was held deprecating voluntary playing or music after the service. The minister asked if I would simply play "I will arise and go to my father,' and no concluding voluntary. I did this for a time, but afterwards said I would rather go than submit to be so hampered. I determined to play a simple melody before and after the service, but it had to be of a hymnal character lest it should shock the good folk. An anthem was never heard except on festive occasions; and then the very people who objected most strongly to its employment in the regular service were delighted with it, and we were asked to sing it at tea and public meetings. Mr. C. B. Symes, when pastor, determined that he would not only have chanting but the
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Joseph
Shakespeare (c. 1808 â 18 March 1888) was married to Sophia Shakespeare, nÊe Lewis, (c. 1818 â 15 May 1875), perhaps his second wife when they emigrated. He married again to Emma Sutherland (c. 1820 â 25 November 1906) on 17 May 1882. They lived at the Temperance Hotel, North Terrace then
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William clearly had a substantial musical education, perhaps largely from their father, who had constructed a pipe organ for his own home use. The boys were frequently called on to preside at the piano at various functions of organizations such as the Freeman Street and North
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After nine months' illness the death, occurred from paralysis on Friday morning, at Miss Hill's
Private Hospital, of Mr. James Shakespeare. . For many years Mr. Shakespeare resided at Stratford Villa, in-Pulteney street. The house was named after the birthplace of the great bard, from whom Mr.
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William "Bill" Shakespeare (4 June 1843 â 4 February 1930) married Julia Ann Martin ( â 4 October 1915) on 22 December 1864. He married again, to Elsie
Grimmond Bruce ( â1962) in 1917. He was the first S.A. Railways apprentice before being appointed City Inspector and Inspector of Weights and
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Shakespeare appears among the arrivals, listed as "Sarah A. Shakespeare". Joseph unsuccessfully applied for a licence for his residential "Railway Hotel" roughly opposite the Adelaide Railway Station, and was subsequently listed as a "temperance hotel".
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Measures. He was secretary of the South
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